6/6/2013-Here We Go Again

I knew those 17-year cicadas would be good metaphors for something. What is it with Connecticut politicians? They seem to be determined to stay corrupt no matter what. They get caught with both hands in the cookie jar, they act contrite after several of their friends are caught by the FBI, but when we turn off the spotlight and our attention, they go back to their old ways. Forget about cicadas. Isn't that how cockroaches act?

The latest outrage is that the legislature has undone the good laws passed in the Rowland scandal. The very excesses that sent Rowland to jail have been put back into law. I'm not complaining as an editorial cartoonist. I've got future fodder growing in the rich soil that is the Connecticut legislature. Lucky me. No, I'm complaining as a taxpaying citizen.

Hard to believe Connecticut was ranked the second least corruptible state, topped only by New Jersey on the website State Integrity Investigation (http://www.stateintegrity.org/). Huh? New Jersey? What's the criteria? As I understand it, it's because of all the rules and regulations we put in place after Rowland was nabbed in his hot tub. The website may want to take another look at the Nutmeg State after this legislative session.